Nuccio Ordine, Italian philosopher, scholar, popularizer and advocate of knowledge as the essence of modern society, is the winner of the Princess of Asturias Award for Humanities and Communication. His election reflects the sometimes distressing weight that education has taken on the current public debate.
The approach of Ordine can be synthesized in The utility of the useless (Acantilado, 2013), an unexpected best seller that fixed many of the ideas about education that today confront in Europe. "To save society we must cultivate utopias and train heretics"